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JOSHUA P. FRIEDMAN is a shareholder in the law firm of Joshua P. Friedman & Associates, where he practices in the areas of consumer and commercial collections. Mr. Friedman is a regular lecturer on issues relating to collections and judgment enforcement. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. degree from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. Mr. Friedman is a member of the American Bar Association, State Bar of California, Beverly Hills Bar Association, ACA International (leading collections organization nationwide), and California Association of Collectors. Mr. Friedman was also appointed to the Board of Directors for California Creditors Bar Association and named vice president for the California Association of Judgment Professionals. Mr. Friedman was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2009, 2010, and 2011 by Los Angeles Magazine. DAVID J. KAMINSKI is a partner at the law firm of Carlson & Messer LLP, a Los Angeles-based civil litigation defense firm. Mr. Kaminski's practice specializes in the defense of collection agencies and creditors under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and related state consumer protection statutes. He represents clients throughout the United States and practices in all state and federal courts throughout the State of California, as well as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court. Mr. Kaminski has extensive experience in multi-district and class action litigation with emphasis on the FDCPA, the FCRA, the TCPA and related State statutes. He is a member of the attorney panel of the ACA International. Mr. Kaminski has been retained by the ACA International to coordinate the defense strategies in the TCPA class action lawsuit, Leckler v. CashCall, in which a U.S. District Court in California sought to invalidate an FCC 2008 Order which favored the debt collection industry. He successfully assisted in overturning the courts erroneous decision. Mr. Kaminski also is one of the coordinating defense attorneys in the mass TCPA litigation entitled, Kinder Coordinated Litigation involving more than 150 TCPA lawsuits filed in the California State Courts. Mr. Kaminski has lectured on such topics as the FDCPA, the FCRA, the TCPA, class action strategies in State and Federal cases, trends in consumer litigation, risk management issues, and other related topics throughout the United States for the ACA International, the California Association of Collectors and its chapters, the Commercial Law League of America, the California Creditors Bar Association, the National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys, Accounts Recovery Summit, and DAKCS Software Systems, Inc. He also has been a long-time lecturer for the California Continuing Education of the Bar.LEO G. O'BIECUNAS JR. is an attorney at the law firm of Zide & O'Biecunas, LLP, and has more than 25 years of experience in the collection field. A graduate of Southwestern University School of Law, Mr. O'Biecunas is a member of the Los Angeles County and Ventura County bars; State Bar of California; Financial Lawyers Conference; Commercial Law League of America (serving as a member of the Executive Council of the Western Region, serving as chair, 1993-1994; and on the Executive Council of the Young Members' Section, 1989-1991); and the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum (serving as a member of the Board of Governors, 1983-1990). Mr. O'Biecunas is admitted to practice before all courts in the State of California, the Federal Court in the Central, Southern and Eastern Districts of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of the United States. He has served as judge pro tem for the Los Angeles Municipal Court and as panel mediator/arbitrator for Los Angeles and Ventura Superior Courts. NANCY SWAIM is an investigator at The SWAIM390 Companies, Inc., in Marina Del Rey. Ms. Swaim career as an investigator began in 1994 in the Los Angeles office of a global white-collar investigations firm. One of her first assignments was investigating wrongful death allegations in a battle over the multi-billion dollar estate of tobacco heiress Doris Duke. Widely reported as "The Butler Did It," the case involved numerous interviews with Ms. Duke's associates. Her experience includes investigations involving business fraud; environmental; intellectual property; sexual harassment and employment discrimination; copyright infringement; competitive intelligence; and toxic tort litigation. She developed an expertise in stalking and workplace violence. In 2001, Ms. Swaim founded The SWAIM390 Companies, Inc., a California-licensed firm with a focus on white-collar private investigations and complex information development. SWAIM390 serves attorneys, general counsel, investment professionals and selected private clients. It handles a wide scope of matters that include asset searches; witness and judgment debtor locates; pre-employment background checks; forensic data recovery; competitive intelligence; asset searches; fraud investigations; intellectual property theft; grey-market and counterfeit goods; due diligence; and civil litigation support. Multi-tiered matters sometimes also involve multiple plaintiffs in class-action suits.
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